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Review: The Mind of the Maker (Sayers)

Posted on August 18, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Sayer argues that the laws of creative imagination are analogues of the Trinity.   Or to say it another way, there is a Trinitarian structure in the mind of man. This is also mirrored in the writing of a book: Book … Continue reading →

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Review: Gordon Clark, Christian Philosophy of Education

Posted on June 5, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

This is one of the early forays into the modern approach to Christian education/Christian schools. Clark doesn’t give anything like a program or curriculum.  He does give good guidelines. And as always, his writing style is top-notch. The first half … Continue reading →

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The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship

Posted on October 15, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

by George Marsden.  Oxford University Press. Instead of “Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship,” we can name it the “Unstable idea of a halfway-covenant going by the name of Christian scholarship.” A key argument:  Here is the problem.  Secularists object to Christians … Continue reading →

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You are what you love (review)

Posted on January 17, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

What we love and desire forms the space for what we know. And so James K. A. Smith reads Augustine’s key phrases in the Confessions. Smith writes: ““In some sense, love is a condition for knowledge” (Smith 7). I love … Continue reading →

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